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The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2020. urn:nbn:hr:142:812642
Svalina, Viktoria
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Svalina, V. (2020). The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

Svalina, Viktoria. "The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

Svalina, Viktoria. "The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

Svalina, V. (2020). 'The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 12 November 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

Svalina V. The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2020 [cited 2024 November 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

V. Svalina, "The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2020. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:812642

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TitleThe Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Title (croatian)Koncepti ljepote i ljubavi u Slici Doriana Graya Oscara Wildea i Frankensteinu Mary Shelley
AuthorViktoria Svalina
MentorBiljana Oklopčić (mentor)
Committee memberBiljana Oklopčić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberLjubica Matek (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2020-09-15, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper explores Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, particularly the themes of beauty, love, lost innocence, and prejudice that both novels have in common. After a short insight into the theoretical background of the paper, the paper revolves around the question to what extent beauty and love impact various characters in the novels. In the second chapter, the concepts of beauty in Oscar Wilde’s work are discussed by focusing on Dorian Gray’s physical attractiveness and his mortality, the painting of the main character and the aesthetic philosophy that is linked to it, and the ideas of hedonism that are interspersed throughout the whole novel. Additionally, the relationship between Dorian Gray and Sybil Vane is put under a magnifying glass. The third chapter deals with the concepts of love that can be found in Dorian’s life and his relationship with other characters. The paper further analyzes the ugly and the sublime in Frankenstein’s creature as well as beauty standards in Shelley’s female characters. The fifth chapter focuses on the creature’s mental mindset and his relationship with Victor Frankenstein, its creator. The aim of this paper is thus to define how much beauty and love, or their lack, influence Wilde’s and Shelley’s characters’ lives and their surroundings.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:812642
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation Studies
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra njemačkog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra njemačkog jezika i književnosti)
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